Direction
Kelly's singular vision — no dialogue, pure dance storytelling.
Practical Effects
Live-action/animation hybrid decades before Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Director
Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly
Host / Pierrot / The Marine / Sinbad
Igor Youskevitch
The Lover / The Artist
Claire Sombert
The Loved
Tamara Toumanova
The Streetwalker
Diana Adams
Hat Check Girl
Tommy Rall
Flashy Boyfriend
Belita
The Femme Fatale
David Paltenghi
The Husband
Claude Bessy
The Model
Carol Haney
Scheherazade
André Previn
Composer at Piano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kelly spent years trying to get this made; MGM finally greenlit it after his success in Europe, then buried it with minimal US release. It lost money and effectively ended his directing career.
The animated Sinbad sequence — featuring Kelly dancing with cartoon characters — predates Mary Poppins' penguin dance by eight years and Roger Rabbit by thirty-two.
US
